CUIP Tech Site For Tech Coordinators, NSP-CUIP Techs, and CUIP Staff

Tech Home Page

Contents

• community. Who this site is particularly meant for.
• News. Recent and upcoming events, changes to this site, CPS or CUIP announcements.
• FAQs. Question-and-answer pages for particular technical topics as well as this site and the CUIP program in general.
• Meetings. Upcoming and previous meetings which members of this community would likely attend — including OTS Tech Talks, CPS Region tech meetings of various kinds, and CUIP-organized workshops and meetings.
• Forums. Visit our web-based forums (bulletin boards).
• Topics. Descriptions, advice, how-to's, and questions/answers on particular areas of educational technology — including some with focus on managing the technology itself and some with focus on instruction with technology as one tool.
• Spare-parts Program. A plan for exchanging computer components among schools in the network.
• Background and Guide. Primarily meant for the UofC NSP-CUIP tech students, some background information on CPS and the technology services at the schools.
• Thanks. People and groups helpful to the development of this site, and those instrumental in the activities reported here.

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Community

This CUIP Tech site is primarily meant to be by and for the CUIP-area educational-technology community, including:

• the Technology Coordinators, Computer Lab Teachers, and other technology-involved teachers and principals at schools in the CUIP group,
• along with CPS Area AICs and AITCs,
• and the CUIP and NSP-CUIP personnel who work alongside them.
• We also welcome participation from partner groups and others with common interests, including CPS central Office of Technology Services, E-Learning Office, and Dept. of Libraries; the GEAR-UP projects of Roosevelt University, Columbia College, and the University of Chicago; the Center for School Improvement; and private consulting and service companies working with these schools.

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News

Recent and upcoming events, changes to this site, CPS or CUIP announcements. (Only immediate upcoming Meetings shown here — for others please see the Meetings section of this page.

Upcoming

• Wednesday and Thursday, 26 and 27 May 2004. CUIP-wide Tech Expo, at M. L. King College Prep High School!

Recent

• Tuesday – Friday, 24 – 27 February, IL-TCE Conference held by ICE, St. Charles, IL.
• Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 3:15 PM, workshop at Fiske on Basics of Ghosting.
• Monday, 16 February 2004: Official launch of this CUIP Tech Pages site.

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FAQs (Frequently-asked-question lists)

Question-and-answer pages for particular technical topics as well as this site and the CUIP program in general.

• Combined FAQ page, with all sections together as one page.
• CUIP project FAQ.
• Tech Site FAQ.
• Accelerated Reader FAQ.

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Meetings

Meetings which members of this community would likely attend — including OTS Tech Talks, CPS Region tech meetings of various kinds, and CUIP-organized workshops and meetings. Planning and announcements for upcoming events, records of previous events. There is a Meetings Page with more overview detail than the lists below.

Upcoming events (earliest first)

• Wednesday and Thursday, 26 and 27 May 2004. CUIP-wide Tech Expo, at M. L. King College Prep High School!

Previous events (latest first)

• (CUIP) Workshop on Advanced Aspects of Ghosting. Day and location TBA, Wednesday 10 March at Fiske.
• (CUIP) Week of 1 March 2004, workshop on Intro to NT4 Server and Windows 2000 Server. Day and location TBA.
• (CUIP) Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 3:15 PM, workshop at Fiske on Basics of Ghosting.
• (CUIP) Friday, 13 February 2004: 3:00 PM, workshop at Ray on differences of Windows 2000 and XP from earlier versions such as Windows 98.
• (CUIP) Wednesday, 04 February 2004: 3:00 PM, workshop at Shoesmith on Accelerated Reader and friends.
• (region) Resources meeting at Medill
• (OTS) Tech Talk at Near north HS
• (CUIP) Tech Coordinators general meeting at Revere
• (region) Tech meeting, west side

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Forums

Visit our web-based forums (also called bulletin boards). Or go directly to a forum or currently active topic:

• Welcome forum
• Tech Coordinators general discussion
• NSP Techs general discussion
• Meetings discussions
  • Winter/Spring 2004 CUIP afterschool workshops
• Computer Parts!
• CPS initiatives and services
• Servers
• Classroom computers
• Software packages
• Web sites
• Just-for-fun forum

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Topics

Descriptions, advice, how-to's, and questions/answers on particular areas of educational technology — including some with focus on managing the technology itself and some with focus on instruction with technology as one tool. Some are associated with workshops or other specific events, but others are on their own.

• Using Ghost to capture and restore system images .
• Accelerated Reader and its cousins.
• Student individual logins with protected network folders.
• How XP and 2000 workstations differ from earlier versions of Windows, and how to manage those differences.
• Intro to NT4 and Win2K Server management through the GUI.
• Printers and Printing

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Spare-parts Program

a.k.a. The APE! (Auxiliary Parts Exchange) -- A still developing formal system whereby CUIP collects and distributes components, cables, and sundry parts for filling short-term needs at our schools. Read More:

• The APE! F.A.Q.
• Introducing the APE!
• What is the APE!?
• Where do the Parts Come From
• What does the APE! Have?

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Background and Guide

Primarily meant for the UofC NSP-CUIP tech students, some background information on CPS and the technology services at the schools.

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Thanks

• A thank-you goes to the CUIP Project Webmaster and to the Managing Director, for agreeing to have the Tech Pages (subsite of CUIP) develop on a different style and organization from the main CUIP site.
• Thanks to John Shipman of the New Mexico Tech Computer Center for providing an evaluation-use package of the Python version of their WebStyler tool.
• Thanks to the principals, tech coordinators, and staffs of schools which have hosted meetings or workshops of the CUIP-area technology community, including M L King HS, North Kenwood - Oakland Charter School, James Wadsworth Elementary School,John Fiske Elementary School, Paul Revere Elementary School, and Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School.

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